Players that played for your team and sucked [Archive]

myrocketsgotcracked

08-19-2006, 05:35 AM

so badly that it pisses you off whenever you hear their names now. For Vancouver,

Hlavac
Rucinsky

Hlavac was a wannabe dangler that couldn’t beat anyone worth a crap one-on-one, yet that's all he tried to do.
Rucinsky played like he was freakin’ depressed all of the time and had no confidence whatsoever. He was so lost out there that he hit the post on an empty net one game.

add mark messier for me for the canucks. so much money, so much promise, didn't even make the playoff once. not to mention all the locker room stuff that i can't verify, but was all over the news.

feff

08-19-2006, 06:01 AM

Gary Leeman for the Flames.

OvechkinDomination*

08-19-2006, 08:10 AM

Phil Housley for the Leafs.

Steve L*

08-19-2006, 08:15 AM

Chris Therien
Billy Tibbets
Jeff "Im dizzy" Hackett
Donald Brashear

Alessandro Seren Rosso

08-19-2006, 08:18 AM

Bates Battaglia for Avalanche :confused:

Buffalo87

08-19-2006, 08:29 AM

It was a while ago but Mike Wilson for Buffalo, I hated that guy!

Buffalo87

08-19-2006, 08:30 AM

Chris Drury was productive enough, but he was a selfish player. That sucked.

Chris Drury? Selfish?

Jori

08-19-2006, 08:34 AM

Before: Jeff Shantz
Now: Patrice Brisebois

Plager05

08-19-2006, 08:35 AM

Wayne Gretzky

algernon

08-19-2006, 08:59 AM

Ken "27 games "Wregget.

Pothier

08-19-2006, 09:01 AM

Tyler "The puck isn't a donut so I'm not going to go for it" Arnason

The New Originals

08-19-2006, 09:02 AM

Poti

but that was kind of obvious, wasn't it

algernon

08-19-2006, 09:02 AM

Tyler "The puck isn't a donut so I'm not going to go for it" Arnason

POST OF THE DAY!:clap:

icandobetter

08-19-2006, 09:07 AM

Jeff Norton for sharks

AlMo

08-19-2006, 09:27 AM

Dmitri Kristich
Benoit Hogue
Sergio Momesso
Calle Johansson
Kris King
Trevor Kidd

felixd

08-19-2006, 09:36 AM

Radek Bonk, Sergei Berezin, Donald Audette, Jason Dawe, Andrei Kovalenko...

I actually liked Kovalenko...one guy I truly despised though was Mariusz Czerkawski.

Team_Spirit

08-19-2006, 09:55 AM

In the last 5 years or so :

Marius 'the polish Prince' Czerkawski
Patrick Traverse

flambers

08-19-2006, 09:58 AM

Chris Drury? Selfish?

Extremely, he whined in Calgary allot which lead to his trade (i.e. he didn't want to be in Canada).

Big McLargehuge

08-19-2006, 10:12 AM

Shane Endicott
Jocelyn Thibault (last year at least)
Steve Poapst
Lyle Odelein
Ryan VandenBussche
Cory Cross
Niklas Nordgren
Brian Holzinger
Drake Berehowsky
Steve McKenna
Dan Focht
Eric Meloche
Josef Melichar (since the injury)
Mikael Samuelsson
Rico Fata
Wayne Primeau
Janne Laukkanen
Hans Jonsson
Andrew Ference (at the end)
Vladimir Vujtek
Jamie Pushor
Billy Tibbetts
Mike Wilson
Krzysztof Oliwa
Ian mother****ing Moran

And people wonder why we've sucked so bad...

DeathFromAbove

08-19-2006, 10:14 AM

Jeff O'neill drives me nuts, albeit he was good for the Canes for a while he was brutal in the dressing room and had a big mouth.

Riffo*

08-19-2006, 11:00 AM

Murray Baron

Bring Back Krajicek*

08-19-2006, 11:14 AM

from last season: weinrich and park

Falloooooon

08-19-2006, 11:14 AM

Two Sharks posts in this thread and neither of them mentioned Selanne.

TornACL

08-19-2006, 11:26 AM

In the last 5 years or so :

Marius 'the polish PrinceSS' Czerkawski

fixed

add Andreas Dackell

Dwight

08-19-2006, 11:30 AM

Patrick "No Hattrick" Traverse
"King" Juha Lind
Jocelyn "T-Bo" Thibault
Matt "Attack" Higgins
Randy "The Dandy" McKay
"Sick" Mick Vukota
Gino "Goon" Odjick
"Bodacious" Benoit Gratton

To Be Continued...

Caroline Says ll

08-19-2006, 11:32 AM

For the Leafs, going in the direction of goalies.... Trevor Kidd and Don Beaupre...:(

LeftCoast

08-19-2006, 11:43 AM

Mark Messier

At least in Vancouver - sucked big time, no leadership.

Torch

08-19-2006, 11:46 AM

Chris Drury? Selfish?

He was in Calgary. He was also a big on-ice complainer. Granted, I'm sure it was frustrating playing for that team at the time, but being at the games, I often saw Drury scowling at teamates. He especially disliked Oleg Saprykin. Usually when that happened, other players would just roll their eyes. You could tell they though he was a bit of a dick.

Wasn't surprising that Sutter shipped him out quickly. And it wasn't surprising that the team improved almost instantly from that point.

redwingsdude

08-19-2006, 11:50 AM

Max Kuzentsov (TERRIBLE D-MAN)
Sean Avery (shouldn't be allowed on any team, thanks to LA for taking him and Max!)
Uwe Krupp (hope you and your sled dogs are happy you rich *******)
Boyd Devereaux (I cant even remember how many perfect passes he ****ed up)

And to a lesser extent:
Darryl Bootland (The fact that this guy got playing time over a few other more talented players on my Detroit Red Wings a few years back still pisses me off, he is a vastly overrated AHL'er)

J17 Vs Proclamation

08-19-2006, 11:54 AM

How long have we got.

Trevor Kidd
Eric Cairns
Pierre Dagenais
Wade Flaherty
Serge Payer
Alex Hicks
John Jakopin
Josh Olson
Jeff Norton
Brad Norton
Ivan Novoseltsev
Lance Pitlick ... haha im actually crying
Denis Shvidki who actually had talent
Igor Ulanov
Jason Wiemer
M Biron
Eric Boguniecki
Brad Ference
Mikael Samuelsson
Lyle Odelein
Andreas Lilja ... or Peter Worell. They are the same guy.
Sean Hill
Jody Hull
Eric Beaudoin
Tom Fitzgerald
Alexander Karpovtsev
Keven Weekes could count
Niklas Hagman, i actually liked him, put couldn't finish at all.
Kristian Huselius blew for us
Jamie Allison
Craig Anderson will suck
Belfour will
Ryan Johnson
Ryan Jardine

Oh god screw it, just go to http://www.floridapanthers.com/History/Roster/.

Burnaby_Joe*

08-19-2006, 11:55 AM

Selanne and Battaglia

PSUhockey34

08-19-2006, 11:56 AM

J17 Vs Proclamation

08-19-2006, 12:00 PM

this season:
Mathieu Biron...that's a gimmie for any caps fan
Brian Willsie

years past:
Jagr...he truely never wanted to play for the caps IMO
Jason Doig
Joel Kwiatkowski
Bates Battaglia
Ivan Ciernik
JF Fortin
Glen Metropolit
Joe Sacco

Wow you've got it lucky. We had Joel this year, and he isn't anywhere near the worst guy we have had.

diligent_d

08-19-2006, 12:05 PM

Tobakecookies*

08-19-2006, 12:34 PM

Vaclav Prospal

TheDanceOfMaternity

08-19-2006, 12:42 PM

Teemu Selanne
Ed Belfour
Curtis Brown
And relatively speaking, Miikka Kipprusoff

crashthenet

08-19-2006, 12:46 PM

Sopel

benji

08-19-2006, 12:48 PM

Trevor Linden for the Habs didn't work out too well.

Everest

08-19-2006, 12:49 PM

Mike York-shire terrier

anteater90

08-19-2006, 01:24 PM

Daryl Sydor- Blue Jackets

SopelFan*

08-19-2006, 01:28 PM

Adrien Plavsic
Bert Robertsson
Bryan Helmer
Dana Murzyn
Evgeny Namestnikov
Leif Rohlin
Jamie Huscroft
Mark Wotten
Marc Bergevin
Wade Brookbank
Nathan Lafayette
Petr Nedved
Vladimir Krutov
Dave Roberts
Josh Holden
Alfie Michaud
Garth Snow
Felix Potvin
Kevin Weekes
Sean Burke
Mike Fountain
Martin Brochu

to name a few...

Sens4Cup

08-19-2006, 01:38 PM

Some Sens that sucked are:

Bill Muckalt-had played decent in Vancouver, but has sucked since, especially in Ottawa

Tom Barrasso-what a crappy guy to trade for, did nothing for Ottawa, and cost us Tugnutt who was playing pretty well

Sami Salo-he wasn't terrible but was always injured and played alot better in Vancouver

Radek Bonk-at one point in 03-04 he had 35 or 40 PP points, and none even strength, and that was playing with Hossa!

Bryan Smolinski-didn't have much grit, nor great speed, nor much in the way of scoring, I wasn't impressed

Rob Ray - booooooooooo!

Vaclav Varada-played pretty badly, with 2-3 minutes of energy per year and always complained about his icetime

Tyler Arnason - boooo! did nothing for the Sens, and got good icetime with Alfie and created nothing ! Good luck Colorado

Mike Sillinger-seems to be hot or cold, boom or bust, with Ottawa he was a bust

Peter Bondra - didn't create much and that was playing with Hossa, Havlat, or Alfie

Damian Rhodes - so overrated when he played for the Sens. Not a team guy, not a good goalie, terrible conditioning etc etc.

That's all I can think of for now.

Jovavic

08-19-2006, 01:42 PM

For the Jackets:

Darryl Sydor
Francis Beauhemin
Robert Kron
Martin Prusek
Tomi Kallio

Roger's Pancreas*

08-19-2006, 01:44 PM

Chris Gratton
Alexandre Daigle
Paul Coffey
Sean Burke (Still like him though)
Andy Delmore
Ulf Samuelsson
Jiri Dopita
Billy Tibbetts
Pavel Brendl
Mike Comrie
Petr Nedved

Eugh, I feel dirty for putting that list together.

IdiotsPickedMyName*

08-19-2006, 01:57 PM

The 92-96 Ottawa senators all sucked with the exception of Cunneyworth, Yashin and Alfie.

I Hate You All*

08-19-2006, 02:08 PM

I have a question for Jackets or Lightning fans: why does Daryl Sydor suck so much now? I lost track of him after he left the Stars and he was a decent player back then.

PACaptain

08-19-2006, 02:09 PM

Big McLargehuge did a good job with a Pens list but the ommission of Matt Bradley inspired me to post.

Bergeron47

08-19-2006, 02:11 PM

Radek Dvorak

Zell_Rocks

08-19-2006, 02:20 PM

Maple Leafs
Owen Nolan
-What looked like a good pickup, turned sour quickly. Nolan Didn't produce for the Leafs and he cost us Mark Stuart, Brad Boyes, and Alyn McCauley plus 5 million in injury compensation money.

Robert Reichel
-Cost us Dany Markov and will go down in history for worst penalty shot of all time. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=m7v0XfrNEzo)

Cory Cross
-He just sucks, what can I say. Another reason he sucks is the fact that we got him in exchange for Freddy Modin. :shakehead

Phil Housley
-He played 4 games for the Leafs, he was a -4. Good guy, but played terrible for the Leafs.

Rick Jackman
-Wow he sucked. Big time. -21 with the Leafs in 71 games.

Drake Berhowsky
-Another piece of garbage. There is a 10th overall pick down the drain.

Dimitri Kristich
-Wow another Quinn blunder. Steven Sullivan out, Dimitri Kristich in? Terrible. :banghead:

-NoGoal-

08-19-2006, 02:30 PM

Tye Conklin

Ducksforcup

08-19-2006, 02:32 PM

Jeff Friesen for the Ducks. I wish him the best though! :)

DevilFisch

08-19-2006, 02:34 PM

Andreas Salomonson
Oleg Tverdovsky (my only memory of him is an own goal)
Dan McGillis
Sasha Lakovic
Corey Schwab

Teemu

08-19-2006, 02:36 PM

Alexander Karpovtsev
Alexei Zhamnov
Doug Gilmour
Mikhail Yakubov

Padan

08-19-2006, 02:46 PM

Avalanche:

Todd Gill
Brad May
Wade Belak
Theo Fleury (in the playoff) Cost us Robyn Regehr.
Martin Skoula (at the end)
Teemu Selänne
Bates Battaglia
Peter Worrell
Anders Myrvold
Sandis Ozolinsh (defensively)

TheHoser

08-19-2006, 02:47 PM

Karpovstev never played for Montreal, but the guy's name can't be mentioned enough!

12# Peter Bondra

08-19-2006, 02:53 PM

Robert Reichel
-Cost us Dany Markov and will go down in history for worst penalty shot of all time. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=m7v0XfrNEzo)

:shakehead :biglaugh:

He once said that he never misses on PS's.

cbjgirl

08-19-2006, 02:56 PM

I have a question for Jackets or Lightning fans: why does Daryl Sydor suck so much now? I lost track of him after he left the Stars and he was a decent player back then.

In Columbus, I think it was more of a case of either too much responsibility being placed on him or him being poorly cast for the roll he was expected to play. Daryl Sydor is no Adam Foote (who handles being the #1 D-man/veteran leader very well).

Buffalo87

08-19-2006, 02:59 PM

He was in Calgary. He was also a big on-ice complainer. Granted, I'm sure it was frustrating playing for that team at the time, but being at the games, I often saw Drury scowling at teamates. He especially disliked Oleg Saprykin. Usually when that happened, other players would just roll their eyes. You could tell they though he was a bit of a dick.

Wasn't surprising that Sutter shipped him out quickly. And it wasn't surprising that the team improved almost instantly from that point.

Hmm...interesting, I didn't know that. Well thanks for shipping him off to Buffalo.:D

saillias

08-19-2006, 03:07 PM

Mike LeClerc
Trevor Kidd
Jason Wiemer
Phillip Sauve
Brian Boucher
Martin St. Louis

Hatcher Dies Tonight

08-19-2006, 03:10 PM

MotownMadman

08-19-2006, 03:29 PM

When he was on the Red Wings, Keith Primeau did a lot of whining and barely played physical at all. I respect his play after he left, but it burns me that he sucked it up in Detroit. I mean he was the biggest guy on the roster and I'd see Kozlov throwing more checks in the playoffs.:madfire:

Lyons71

08-19-2006, 03:35 PM

Ducks

>>>Jeff Friesen was a huge dissapointment
>>>Scott Young blew
>>>Kevin Haller was never supposed to be that good, but every night someone would juke him out of his pants with an average move. Horrible.
>>>Petr Sykora. Never before have I thought a player was as good as I thought he was and then realized how crummy he actually is. When he was traded here, I was excited, but he was only even partially usefull when Kariya and Oates were banking pucks off him into the net. His last season (half season) in Anaheim was especially brutal. When he got injured and missed a bunch of games, the team started winning... :sarcasm:
>>>Germain Titov wasn't good here, but he had major family issues over in russia with his dad and brother (or something like this, i'm not 100% positive of the exact story) both allegedly committed suicide.

There are probably more, but I can't really think of anymore at the moment.

sehnsucht

08-19-2006, 03:35 PM

Stillman and the Valerina will forever be my top two most hated players

St. Louis was fairly brutal as well

Poochie_D

08-19-2006, 04:29 PM

Czerkawski
Berezin
Audette
Traverse
Brisebois

Riffo*

08-19-2006, 04:44 PM

brett clark
David Wilkie
Pat Jablonski
Jonas Hoglund
Zarley Zalapski
Jassen Cullimore
Sebastien Bordeleau
Robert Dirk
Marko Kiprusoff
Scott Lachance
Jason Dawe
Ron Wilson
Gerry Flemming
Ed Cristofoli

Big McLargehuge

08-19-2006, 04:44 PM

:eek: What a great list, and yet you forgot the poster boy for Penguin draft disappointments - Robert Dome

Nope, I only went back to 2001-02, Dome last suited up for the Penguins in 99-00.

How sad is it that list is that long over 4 seasons...and I still missed people(Matt Bradley, how I hated him :banghead: ).

Lionheart

08-19-2006, 05:33 PM

Ottawa

-Martin Straka (I expected so much when we traded for him, and we only got about 40 games. Oh well, we got Redden when we traded him to the Isles!)
-Joe Cirella (Solid NHL D for 15 years, but was not that great in Ottawa
-Scott Levins, Pat Elyniuk, Dave Archibald, Antti Tormanen... ah, gotta love those mid-90s Sens
-Tyler Arnason, natch
-Radek Bonk (expected so much, got so little)
-Stan Neckar (see Bonk)

Blades of Glory

08-19-2006, 05:38 PM

The Sharks have a looooong list from the early days. I'll start with the always hated Ed Belfour. I mean, he's been great everywhere he's played but San Jose. What an *******.

Two Sharks posts in this thread and neither of them mentioned Selanne.

He didn't suck. He just wasn't the Teemu Selanne that everyone wanted to see.

Miika Kipprusoff could make this list, he didn't have a very flattering Sharks career outside of one playoff win.

BigE

08-19-2006, 05:42 PM

Sandis Ozolinsh, and Tom Poti. Mike Dunham was very inconsistent, but it probably wasn't all his fault; Ozo and Poti have no excuses.

Cynical TyranT

08-19-2006, 07:16 PM

Sandis Ozolinsh, and Tom Poti. Mike Dunham was very inconsistent, but it probably wasn't all his fault; Ozo and Poti have no excuses.

You say them over Alexei Kovalev? He's the biggest disappointment for me by far... all that promise, and sucked as a Ranger... outside of 94.

philthy mcnasty*

08-19-2006, 07:28 PM

Conklin. Last year though.

Habsfan18

08-19-2006, 07:38 PM

Sergei Berezin
Donald Audette
Joe Juneau
Mariusz Czerkawski
Andreas Dackell
Niklas Sundstrom

Poochie_D

08-19-2006, 07:45 PM

Sergei Berezin
Donald Audette
Joe Juneau
Mariusz Czerkawski
Andreas Dackell
Niklas Sundstrom

Dackell was great as a Hab. He filled his role. He only cost us a 7th rounder.

coyoteshockeyfan

08-19-2006, 07:50 PM

Brett Hull

StevenintheATL

08-19-2006, 08:16 PM

:thrashers

Norm "Fatboy" Maracle
Damien Rhodes
Uwe "4 Games" Krupp
Jiri Slegr
Byron Dafoe

CaptBrannigan

08-19-2006, 08:24 PM

Pretty much the whole Lightning roster for a few seasons. It was a rotating door of bad players. Not to pick on just one, but the second go-round with Kevin Hodson was sickening to watch. There were some baaaaad players down here for a long time.

anguscertified

08-19-2006, 08:27 PM

Jan Hlavac jumps out at me (just like he jumped every ****ing time he got hit, and proceeded to lose the puck).

Laus723

08-19-2006, 08:41 PM

Anders Eriksson
Donald Audette
Igor Larianov
Lance Pitlick
Alexander Karpovsev(?)

gocanucks676

08-19-2006, 09:48 PM

Last year: Richard Park

Zimmer12

08-19-2006, 09:53 PM

St. Louis
Savard
Stillman
V. Bure
Giguere

blue dave

08-19-2006, 10:15 PM

Eric Weinrich
Valeri Bure
Brent Johnson
Roman Turek
Steve Poapst

NJDevs430

08-20-2006, 12:47 AM

To add for the Devils...(right of the top of my head):

Viktor Kozlov (whose greatest contribution was his prowess in shoot-outs)
Christian Berglund (whose greatest contribution was [sadly] that he nabbed us Viktor Kozlov)
Pierre Dagenais (whose greatest contribution was...nothing)
Igor Larionov (whose greatest contribution was there was someone Scott Stevens could call 'Pops' on the team)
Sean O'Donnell (whose greatest contribution was that he decorated the Devils offices at the Easter party, I think)
Valeri Kamensky (see Dagenais, Pierre)
Mike "the Kool-Aid Kid" Danton (whose greatest contribution was that he waited until he got traded to St Louis to finally really implode)
Darren Langdon (whose greatest contribution was he won't be back next year)

}:-(>

TVanek26*

08-20-2006, 01:00 AM

Taylor Pyatt

kira

08-20-2006, 01:24 AM

Anders Ericsson
Uwe Krupp

Those are the two who jump out at me. Both of them were about as useful as screen doors on a submarine.

Kimota

08-20-2006, 01:29 AM

St. Louis
Savard
Stillman
V. Bure
Giguere

That`s pretty bizarre, isn`t it.

Reload

08-20-2006, 01:30 AM

For the Oilers, Radek Dvorak was pretty terrible for most of the season. Cory Cross was also hard to watch when he was in the copper and blue.

Amaxing Joni Jokel

08-20-2006, 01:36 AM

David Tanabe
Sandis Ozolinsh
Jan Hlavac
Oleg Tverdovsky
Jesse Boulerice
Niklas Nordgren

CaptCrunch

08-20-2006, 01:47 AM

Personal list...

Trevor "I still don't understand why we gave a 1st pick for this sorry piece of ****" Linden

Never even reached 40 pts. Earned WAY too much money. Modano is better than you so just go home and die.

The "I can't believe we gave up a HOF goalie for you guys" crew

Martin Rucinsky, Andrei Kovalenko, Jocelyn T-Bo. Nuff said.

The tofu crew. Also known as "we don't generate offense and we don't care" forwards. Sometimes refered as: Those guys that don't score but does the "little things" right.

Joe Juneau
Andreas Dackell
Niklas Sundstrom
Radek Bonk

Vladimir "Narcoleptic" Malahov

Fabulous talent paired with fabulous lack of motivation

Brian "Mr.October" Savage

The best 30 goal scorer to have never even reached 30 goals.

Patrick Poulin

I did not like the fact that he was called Poulin (Yes, I can be that shallow). His name is synonymous with the bleak days.

Craig "You know you are in trouble when that guy is a regular in the lineup" Darby

Craig Darby is a way for me to recall the days when the team was right in the middle of sucking. He is to be used in the following sentence: "Do you remember when we had Craig Darby"?

Karl "I was on the top pairing with Patrice Brisebois" Dykhuis

He never did anything wrong but he DOES makes me remember when he was on the top pairing with Brisebois. Which, in itself, is a bad thing.

Eric "we should have taken Simon Gagne" Chouinard

We should, hmmm, have taken Simon Gagne. I cannot help to remember this simple fact when I hear his name. Thus, I hate him.

Mariusz "the polish princess" Czerkawski

And to think he was advertised as a high profile player...

Sergei "zoom zoom" Berezin

Big wheels, nothing to show for it.

Peter (6'6'') Popovic

A huge tower of.... flab.

Sorry guys, I DO have a lot of pent up anger at these last 10 years...

Draft Guru

08-20-2006, 01:49 AM

Bruce Driver
Tim Taylor
Tim Sweeney
Pat Flatley
Valeri Kamensky
Stephane Quintal
Vladimir Malakhov
Tom Poti
Jan Hlavac (03-04)
Zdeno Ciger
Anson Carter
Alexei Kovalev (2nd go around)
Scott Fraser (!!!)

I could go on and on...

MarkusNaslund19

08-20-2006, 03:31 AM

Shawn Antoski-what a wasted draft pick.
Alek Stojanov- I know, we got Naslund for him, but that doesn't excuse how pathetic he was as a Canuck.
Josef Beranek- simply for the reason that Quinn let Ronning go in order to keep Beranek and his salary...and a dark era began.
Lonny Bohonos- lacked heart in a big way.
Martin Brochu- not quite as good as the other Martin Bro...(hint, has more cups than Brochu)
Wade Brookbank- a good guy I think...but such a terrible skater that he lost fights to inferior fighters simply because they would push him and he'd fall.
Troy Crowder- shocking that the "Crowder experiment" failed, at least to pat quinn.
Frank Kucera- I know we had to get rid of Jeff Brown cause of the wink wink nudge nudge but seriously? Dowd and Kucera was the best we could do?
Chris Joseph- was once traded for Paul Coffey...ten years after he proved he sucked, he came here.
Gary Leeman- the Chris Joseph of our forward corps.
Mark Messier- didn't really tarnish his legacy as a great leader in the eyes of New Yorkers and the rest of the hockey world (outside of vancouver) but man did he try.

Devs

08-20-2006, 04:11 AM

xeric716x

08-20-2006, 09:15 AM

Gilmour for Buffalo.

Predatorbill

08-20-2006, 12:58 PM

Witt and Markov

Habsfan18

08-20-2006, 01:02 PM

MXD

08-20-2006, 07:34 PM

Radek Bonk, Sergei Berezin, Donald Audette, Jason Dawe, Andrei Kovalenko...

I'd toss Audette off (he had a good playoff run...), but put Murray Baron (good everywhere except in Montreal), Dave Manson and John Leclair in.

PSUhockey34

08-20-2006, 07:39 PM

Wow you've got it lucky. We had Joel this year, and he isn't anywhere near the worst guy we have had.

thats b/c he wasnt asked to be anything more then a #5-6 dmen right? he was over his head in DC which wasnt his fault

Mackee

08-20-2006, 08:33 PM

Hmmm, have yet to see Johan Witehall's name mentioned. Still scratching my head as to why we got him. A whopping 2 goals and 7 points in 54 career NHL games before heading back to Europe.

Patrick Traverse tops this list. Actually shot a puck at Theodore trying to clear it around the boards. Was funny and so sad at the same time.

saveourpens

08-20-2006, 08:48 PM

for the Pens...

Hans Johnson
Jean-Sebastian Aubin
Shane Endicott

*shudders*

HF2002

08-20-2006, 08:52 PM

Some Sens that sucked are:

Damian Rhodes - so overrated when he played for the Sens. Not a team guy, not a good goalie, terrible conditioning etc etc.

I'm just curious as to how you have any idea what his conditioning was? Do tell.

frederixx

08-20-2006, 09:53 PM

the worst player i've seen, was Pierre Dagenais...

sorry Pierre if you read this

salty justice

08-20-2006, 11:35 PM

For the Blackhawks it is much much easier to list the players who didnt suck hard in one way or another.

And for the guys who have been on this team this decade, the only players who come to my mind are

Kyle Calder
Steve Sullivan

No one else has really done ****.

boredmale

08-21-2006, 12:16 AM

for Islanders(guys who under performed who played better elsewhere)

Kirk Muller - guy was brought in for his so called leadership abilities but was a useless whiner, probably my least favorite player in the history of the NHL

Martin Straka - guy only seemed to perform for the Penguins until this year, funny story is he was a part of the Muller deal

Alexei Yashin - was a 80+ point guy in Ottawa and now is a 65-70 point guy, if he was getting paid 4-4.5M i wouldn't mind and not put him on this list but he is roughly a 7M dollar cap hit

LUONGO

08-21-2006, 12:17 AM

richard park!:banghead: his only expectation coming into training camp was not to suck

GSK*

08-21-2006, 12:27 AM

Sergei Berezin
Donald Audette
Joe Juneau
Mariusz Czerkawski
Jonas Hoglund

crashlanding

08-21-2006, 01:35 AM

Add in Chorske, McGillis, Malhakov, Sean Brown, and Jarrod Skalde, please
Lyle Odelein, Bob Corkum, Oleg Tverdovsky (or Tverdorfffsky as Gary Thorne would have you believe), Richard Smehlik...maybe

DaveyCrockett

08-21-2006, 01:36 AM

Jyrki Lumme, Trevor Kidd, Anders Eriksson, Cory Cross, Mikael Renberg, Larry Murphy, Fredrik Modin, Alyn McCauley and Grant Fuhr were all pretty bad in Toronto.

EagleBelfour

08-21-2006, 01:54 AM

I had a card of Patrick Poulin, paired with Brett Hull that was named: Next Generation. :biglaugh:

... Yesterday I go eat at Burger King and who you think served me my ''poutine''? Yeah you got it .... I think I will ask me to sign my Next generation card ...

Martin Rucinsky
Patrik Traverse
A lot of players of the 97' to 01' era.

Gotta say that right now, I pretty much like everyone in this team. Yep, even Radek Bonk!

OvechkinDomination*

08-21-2006, 07:48 AM

Jyrki Lumme, Trevor Kidd, Anders Eriksson, Cory Cross, Mikael Renberg, Larry Murphy, Fredrik Modin, Alyn McCauley and Grant Fuhr were all pretty bad in Toronto.

And Housley. God Housley was bad.

DaveG

08-21-2006, 08:03 AM

Mike Fountain
Steve Halko
Enrico Ciccone
Mike Ruccinski
Mark Fitzpatrick
David Tanabe (they played this kid well before he was ready and it showed, he could have been prety decent)
Sandis Ozolinsh
Craig MacDonald
Chris Dingman
Nikos Tselios
Josh Holden
Jan Hlavac
Pavel Brendl
Brad DeFauw
Jeff Heerema
Jesse Boulerice
Harold Druken
Marty Murray
Jamie Storr
Niklas Nordgren

canada_mapleleaf

08-21-2006, 11:03 AM

Eric Lindros, Jason Allison, Trevor Kidd, Glenn Healy, Aki Berg.

GWF82

08-21-2006, 11:37 AM

Andreas Salomonson
Oleg Tverdovsky (my only memory of him is an own goal)
Dan McGillis
Sasha Lakovic
Corey Schwab

Ok, did you pick random names and say "haha that'd be a funny one"?

Schwab played 24 games for the Devils, had a save percentage of around 94% and a goals against of around 1.4-1.5 for his career there...care to elaborate aside from the fact that he didnt play much?

Lots of Lightning players come to mind and the list could be 8 miles long, but I must say that Gordie Dwyer had to be one of the worst here ever.

Skyblaze

08-21-2006, 12:13 PM

For the Oils, Alexei Semenov should've been much better, Cory Cross gets an honorable mention.

For the Habs, definitely Dainius Zubrus. "Jeebus, we gave Mark Recchi for THAT?" pretty much sums it up. Thankfully him and equally useless Trevor "I only play for the Canucks!" Linden turned into a few good years of Zednik and Bulis, along with some hope for Perezhogin.

druncan

08-21-2006, 01:11 PM

Sharks:

Bellllllllllllllllllllfoooooooooooooooooour
Darren Turcotte (punctured his ear-drum with a q-tip)
Craig Janney
Al Iafrate (not entirely his fault I suppose)
Todd Gill
Bernie Nichols
Doug Bodger

Sharks just loved to pick up guys that were either severely overrated or well passed their prime. Thankfully, they didn't give up too much to get them, although it's not like they had a wealth of prospects at the time.

DungeonK

08-21-2006, 02:01 PM

Byron Dafoe. (Atlanta)

kira

08-21-2006, 03:53 PM

I have to add Cory Cross to the Wings list...he makes me long for Jiri Fischer's return

JiriHrdina

08-21-2006, 04:08 PM

For the Flames

Zarley Zalapaski
Mike Leclerc
Mike Vernon 2.0
Ken Wregget
Nik Borschevsky
Martin St. Louis

Marc the Habs Fan

08-21-2006, 11:05 PM

The Habs list is quite long:

Pierre Dagenais - Can't skate in the new NHL. SO prowess is all he has.
Niklas Sundstrom - Can't believe he was a high first rounder, was showered w/ praise from Gretz and a key part of the Sharks way back when.
Joe Juneau - So obvious he was done and he kept playing anyway.
Chad Kilger - Started off well with the Habs in 2000-01, but eventually he simply became worthless.
Karl Dykhuis - Got a big fat extension because he had one of the highest +/- on the team one year & just proceeded to suck for the rest of his contract.
Randy McKay - Oh the torture of watching him skate.:cry:
Mariusz Czerkawski - :madfire:
Patrick Traverse - The absolute worst player I have ever seen play 15-20 minutes on a regular basis for the Habs. Unbelievable. His 2002-03 season was one of the worst ever for a NHL D. I have no doubt about it.
Sylvain Blouin - Just a horrible player who survived because of his fighting ability.
Sergei Berezin - :banghead:
Gino Odjick - He was entertaining, but what a joke on the ice.
Martin Rucinsky - Blood pressure...rising...rising.:madfire:
Patrick Poulin - Couldn't score in the freaking ocean.
Reid Simpson - Another failed goon.
Craig Darby - He was once our first line center when we had injuries. I am not joking.
Jim Campbell - This stiff scored 23 and 22 goals in back-to-back seasons for the Blues?:amazed:
Juha Lind - Useless.
Joan Witehall - Useless 2.0.
Christian Laflamme - He was Patrick Traverse before Patrick Traverse arrived.:biglaugh:
Darryl Shannon - Useless 3.0.
Barry Richter - What a stiff.
Jim Cummins - Guess what? another failed goon.
Jonas Hoglund - I still can't believe he went on to score nearly 30 in T.O. He should donate half his salary to Sundin's favorite charity.
Scott Lachance - 4th overall pick in '91. You sure couldn't tell when he was wearing the CH.
Terry Ryan - A first round bust who still to this day blames the Habs for his failures and not himself or his atrocious skating.
Peter Popovic - They don't make 'em any softer.
Robert Dirk - Useless 4.0. He only played 3 games but boy were they terrible ones.

We sure have had lots of garbage over the years.:banghead:

Josh Deitell

08-22-2006, 12:05 AM

Some Kings...
-The giveaway crew, a.k.a. Nathan Dempsey and Joe Corvo; featuring more giveaways than those guys and girls who fire shirts into the crowds
-Jaroslav "I can play offense and defense but I don't skate fast enough to do both at once, so I'll just pick one and focus on it for awhile I guess" Modry
-Brad "it's ok because I do the little things" Chartrand
-Craig "I keep getting playing time but I don't really do all that much" Johnson
-Jason "couldn't skate out of the way of a train moving two miles per hour, and had the injuries to prove it" Allison; not necessarily bad offensively, but rarely ever played and moved like a snail
-Maxim "no comment needed" Kuznetzov; slower than a stationary bullet!
-Dmitri "we traded Lilja for you so it's alright but you sucked while you were here anyway" Yushkevich
-Andreas "we traded you for Yushkevich so it's alright but you sucked while you were here anyway" Lilja
-Jamie "I teach how to fold under the pressure of the NHL daily at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo" Storr
-Scott "scores more signatures on his casts than goals" Barney
-Aki "just go around me, I'm having a picnic in my head" Berg

Right, I think that's all that comes to mind.